fresh arrests over the u.k. some phone hacking scandal broke it's already shaken the media empire public fury over the case challenges the future of britain's a newspaper industry. they've got to take an act you know they've got to take a chainsaw to government spending and do something about it calls for the u.s. to cut spending and threats to the country's credit rating might be downgraded if lawmakers fail to raise america's debt ceiling but as more e.u. states plunge deeper into their own economic crisis plus. initial investigations into the sinking of the gold gary it points to negligence on the the tragedy could

have been avoided but first arrests are made in the investigation into sunday's a pleasure cruiser disaster as divers continue to retrieve bodies from the boulder river a death toll now standing up one hundred hundred person. a very warm welcome to you this is a lot from moscow i'm sure a former executive editor of the disgraced news of the world newspaper has reportedly been arrested over the u.k. phone hacking scandal british m.p.'s meantime and now pressing rupert murdoch to face questioning over continuing allegations that several of his newspapers were engaged in rampant voicemail hacking and bribed senior officials but it also has a lawyer and it reports the media mogul's read rise over the decades was littered with red flags warning of what was to come. rupert murdoch's push to expand in

british media has come to a halt public and political rage overthrown hacking sports news corp to drop its bid to buy satellite broadcaster b. sky b. but some say he's already killed the british press and they were saying it as far back as one thousand nine hundred eighty one that's when he went on a media spending spree and bought amongst others the world renowned times newspaper news international has been playing a toxic part of our public life for so long but it worked under his ownership circulation just kept on rising in a market that killed authors and sky t.v. a loss making and obscure satellite network rocketed to become the biggest player in the u.k.'s pay t.v. market i do admire rupert murdoch because he's a risk taker when he was at the times and sunday times of london there are people who will say that he saved the newspaper industry but now it's clear that success came with a heavy price tag morality murdoch's journalist kept ratings hide i violating and

exploiting the vulnerable they hacked the private voice mails of families of dead soldiers and of murdered children essentially we've seen criminality and invasion of privacy on a staggering into scale not even the rich and powerful could escape then chancellor gordon brown's baby was splashed over the front page of the sun his illness a sick headline royal family phones were hacked the scandal even goes right to the heart of the police force senior police officers were bribed by journalists for tipoffs on sensitive investigations private lives were made public now we've got. some hacking into gordon brown's private boy you have to wonder what else is in and of course it's not only it's not just. bloggers these are people to

information what should be private sources like medical records tax records it's taken thirty years for the worst fears about the british press to come true come true they have murdoch may own successful newspapers in an ailing markets but their papers which have lost their greatest assets the public's trust the u.k. has more c.c.t.v. cameras per person than anywhere else in the world i've counted it's just in this small car park so britain's always no big brother is watching but the question now is what's big brother watching for and more importantly who's trying to break him your edits out see. what might have erskine or mean for the global murdoch media empire looks like a proper police investigation for the first time into this it could well mean that we see the rupert murdoch's empire in britain crumbling collapsing we spoke on the

issue with the u.k. investigative journalist tony gosling check out our website party talks for the full interview with. you with r.t. live from moscow and i was divers continue to retrieve bodies from the volga river the number confirmed dead after the pleasure cruiser sinking on sunday has risen to one hundred thirteen meanwhile yet more details emerge of procedural violations that could have contributed to the tragedy the bull daria's crew reportedly understated the number of passengers on board to obtain permission from river controllers to set sail they claimed the number on board to be just twenty instead of two hundred. brings us the latest from the disaster site. the first arrests have been made and this is starting to move beyond just a disaster recovery operation there are two people that have been arrested so far in yakima she is the owner of the company that rentable daria for what would be its final voyage also. sure he is

a state expert on shipping and sometime before that voyage he said that the area was fit to sail and so perhaps was negligent in that decision divers are still working in teams in our in our out in a on a platform out in the river over the sunken bowl garri or it's now estimated there are around a dozen bodies left to be recovered divers have explored most of the ship now there might be some places left where bodies could be but it is possible that some of those bodies may know may not be in the ship they may be in the water around the ship and in a worst case scenario currents may have carried some of the bodies up to two hundred kilometers downstream there's also been revelations added to the case of the of the bulgarian and was particularly concerning to ships just after the sinking passed by and didn't pick a single person up there's been massive public fury over this and that

has recently been perhaps somewhat tempered by the views of some experts saying that actually these two ships that arrived with people in the water and in the oil slick around them they weren't passenger ships they were barges and it would have actually been very difficult for them to pick people up and they may have actually hindered the third ship the arabella which came in did start to pick people up we earlier spoke to the captain an exclusive interview the captain of the arabella saying what he found when his ship arrived at the scene of the disaster. it happened really fast you're trying to turn militant and we heard the distress call . as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the water people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock but some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil field that was leaking from the sunken ship it was a terrifying picture of. the captain of the arabella also added his own views

to those of those two other captains he was in the vicinity as they were and he gave his own views on the public fury and the experts saying well maybe it was they didn't do such an awful thing let's hear what he had to say about that. when we were approaching the position of the tragedy almost at the same time as every cargo ship i don't know why you didn't stop to maybe try to get the inertia of heavy cargo wouldn't let him but as we approached the side it's presence can only handle risky work to ration to proceed and not waste time so there's very mixed feelings now about the role of these two ships the rescue operation will shortly if they can recover the rest of these bodies be moving into its next phase and that is for two ships specially equipped to try and raise the sunken bowl garia and then it will be known hopefully in a proper investigation it can start as to why this ship sank thank so fast causing so much tragedy. that's why we've got more on our website including our footage of

the recovery operation still underway and. i log on to our. first. rating agency threatens to review america's aaa credit score that's the first time in over ten years it says that there's a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock in its budget negotiations and even if the package is approved it's unlikely to offer a solution to america's debt that's according to investor and co-founder of the quantum fund jim rogers. you know and the state already has been downgraded the world markets every hour not the only person who knows it united states is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world look at the value of the u.s. dollar is down fairly significantly over the past few years they have to increase again ceiling for the moment there's no question about their their choice though for the future is they've got to take an axe you know they've got to take a chainsaw to government spending and do something about it they're not going to do

that though they might announce they're going to do it for years to get the budget ceiling piers put aside going to have any effect everybody sees that washington is not going to solve this problem and more and more people are looking for something to replace the u.s. dollar. the same time the eurozone crisis now focuses on italy where the senate has approved tough austerity measures a package was set to receive final approval in the country's lower house on friday it comes amid concerns that italy the euro zone's third largest economy may become the next to ask for a helping hand follows both arland and portugal having their gratings downgraded to junk status got a serious blow to the bailout with euro plot which struggles to prop up its weakest economies more on the e.u. don't worry so now we're joined by writer and patrick young i thank you for joining us today are so tough budget cuts in italy are now a step closer to reality will that help to deal with without taking its begging

bowl that you think already i think it's going to be a huge problem for italy because the difficulty has become good in one way for you certain. parts of the helping hand but the problem is that mr skilling he. told the prime minister of italy is to turn trying to push back a cut so they won't cheat effect until twenty thirteen well that's a long way away you look at how much the world is moving at the moment just from one with the next you'll go to the north and you can see that the whole problem is that we are facing a contagion. interesting how you say he's pushing about a two thousand and thirteen is not exactly a quick fix so right there we've already witnessed the reaction to a budget cuts in greece will italy now be swamped in civil unrest or people just take to the streets. well you know it's one of those things i mean at all points in time when you try to defeat a client states and well you can get a very very large and looked at public sector where you've even got let's face it having the members of parliament in italy get case something like twice as much as they get paid and a good case or germany you've got all lot of people who are going to complain there

will be one significant difference between the people who take to the streets between greece and italy and that is that a greece at least thank goodness the taxi drivers don't go on strike what is nuclei expected almost everybody is going to end up on strike and it's going to be absolutely chaotic the only way they can slip this through is perhaps because we do have this long lead in time until the cuts really start to make an impact in two thousand and thirteen but i think the problem is in the meantime a large amount of the sort of leftist opposition in italy for see the fact that silvio berlusconi many of the reasons most of which are outside of the direct fiscal reason are well i mean he's a wounded animal is points in time and in some ways i think he's going to be finding it very difficult to hold his government together now if you're the euro zone's are third largest economy and saving it would require more cash than bailing out greece or portugal at this point i mean our partners are ready for a rescue operation on that scale it might seem there's quite a lot of a bailout fatigue going across the region. well look i mean this is really

a crisis because i mean greece is only what two and a half percent of the entire eurozone economy something like but it will give the first serious heavy hitter is everybody who's ever bought a designer italian or an italian car in august but in engineering and it's ultimately going to be hugely difficult i mean the germans only two days ago have issued a fairly rigorous now the whole idea that they are going to manage to involve themselves in some sort of a rescue it's a huge crisis and actually i don't really know that the euro zone has either the stomach politically to manage to rescue this economy or indeed that they've got the funds to do it. and it's perfect of italy needs to launch a bike they need to issue about one billion u.s. dollars. trillion u.s. dollars in the course of their six to nine months refund for their reforms now that a lot of people are to get investments and i think it's going to be very difficult

because one of the big issues we're going to tell you to call me is if we look at money. money in credit in the economy it's declining rapidly and what does that tell us it tells us that a tough year like the fiscal future we have afforded the citizens who are scared and they're scared not just in italy they're scared in germany in other parts of the euro zone as well then really it's going to t. credible political leadership and manage to get a side of this crisis and at the moment actually we have a seat absence of government at the euro zone level and that's very worrying the leading politicians and government was not really getting involved there were there was always been some skepticism about the smaller economies like greece and ireland but if it is now join you know the list or what other euro zone surprises do you think a lie ahead for us because it seems to be as you're saying a contagion earlier just spreading spreading across europe. well of course you know the french are celebrating are still there today it's a huge holiday everybody's been out marching celebrating the events of seventy nine

eighty nine of the revolution there the truth of the matter is that the that the french have not managed to help their government current a kind concert of nine hundred seventy or one hundred seventy five but a lifetime of many people who are watching this bulletin it's absolutely crazy all of europe scarred movements have got too much debt and actually i would echo jen rogers words of just a few moments ago this is a fundamental debt crisis across the whole euro zone and in fact what's incredible is we have an italian mario draghi who's going to be the next head of the european central bank he's coming into office at the moment and he himself notes the sold one seat of sovereign states is no longer to be taken for granted in other words at this point in time any possible shock could take place the difficult years but all of the large economies along side most of the small ones have all the road too much money and i think the problem is also look at the continued not just within the eurozone itself but within the broader european continent and the uk for example

leads us to the united kingdom they've been making cuts but at the same point in time the amount of money that they've cut in the course of the last year from the budget only just that by equals the bike of money they just had to put into the bay like thunder eight i.m.f. itself there are big problems in western europe rory the heavens to be in are definitely to the east and everyone fortunately expect further to surprise us because the academic contagion seems to be spreading and we have no political leadership seeming to do with it right patrick young writer and author thank you you thank. but as the death of plague sweeping across the e.u. it spreads to italy aussies max keiser and stacy herbert discuss whether the country's gold reserves tonight even make it a bigger target that's in the cards a reporter coming your way next hour an hour is a preview. italy's guy actual gold at the i.m.f. and the people who support the i.m.f. the terrorists as i mentioned like eric cantor they are helping to facilitate the

thieving of that twenty four hundred tons of gold because that is meaningful they need that gold because of course is the i.m.f. going to get the airport landing fees from naples or sicily right now. it with r.t. live from moscow now russia has less disagreement with the u.s. on the libyan crisis than with some european countries but if you were both organise a circular for off after talks with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton. brings us more from our bureau in washington with regards to leave here both russia and the u.s. have the view that colonel qaddafi must step down and that the leaders should be able to choose their future leader it's the path towards those aims that moscow and washington disagree on a few world russia criticizes the scope of the into the foreign intervention in

libya possible sees the actions of the allied force forces there as a violation of the un mandate minister lavrov said the resolution is being wrongly interpreted as anyone can do whatever they want foreign minister lavrov was also asked about why russia is blocking a u.i. and they should have to condemn the syrian president assad he said the attitude of the west is exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and present our side of moscow sees it as sees it as the wrong attitude russia says it says the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they remain insistent in the situation kids getting critical of the west will come to help them the way it is happening in libya mr lavrov said it's unacceptable that the opposition to resort to violence agitating peaceful protesters into engaging in armed clashes and effectively turning them into a carcass for the police and security forces take a listen we're going to deploy. diplomacy exists not to condemn and score political

points diplomacy exists to solve problems and make it condemnation without proposing any solution won't lead us to any breakthrough neither in syria nor in any other place there is a good example of how we are all dealing with the situation in yemen no one is tripos and you can genuine or a doctor the u.n. security council resolution supporting one or another signed everyone is urging the two sites. so you don't hold negotiations dance a responsible approach that we hope will prevail america's missile defense plans is one of the most irritating issues in the relations between the two countries president obama has scrapped the bush administration missile defense clients but they are going ahead with a new plan for minutes the latter i've said russians need for legally binding guarantees that the project will not threaten russia's security washington has made reassuring statements before but moscow needs to have it on paper so there is an understanding among the russians that words are good but words in a legally binding document are better. and to read more about the agreements

reached out during office visit to washington log on to our website r c dot com that's alongside other news and videos and lots of blogs as well he's a taste of what's waiting for you want to mind right now find out why a monument to the first man in space yuri gagarin has been unveiled right in the very heart of london also a furry a fugitive for freedom most people run away to this but this unusual group escaped from one of a depressive a monkey and the parrot all got together to get away from we're going to find out how they made their during the break loose. a wave of criticism is gathering momentum in israel over a new bill that allows the boycott of israel in jewish settlements on occupied palestinian territory opposition parties have called the law an attempt by a weakened government to silence the people one peace movement has attention in the supreme court against the prime minister netanyahu who faced

a stormy session in the knesset on wednesday as he himself was forced to defend the law by some members staged a protest walkout by the legislation imposes fines on boycott organizers and allows settlers to sue them for compensation. from the boycott divestment and sanctions movement in ramallah says the bill will only make the propellants the actual store . has never been a democracy and can never be a democracy so long as it's an apartheid state so long as it has tens or flaws discriminating between its jewish and non jewish citizens so long as it denies millions of palestinian refugees the right to return home and so long as it continues with its occupation of the west bank including the truth as well as gaza so a country committing such violations of international law i am not for basic human rights cannot call itself a democracy professor illan prophet as traitor historian maybe had to try to when he said israel is a heaven for which is

a. democracy only for the master class not for everyone and if anything israel is going it's really pushing fast forward in digging the grave of its occupation and apartheid as long as palestinian rights are not respected by israel as long as the occupation continues apartheid continues then i look refugee rights continues palestinians have no choice but to continue to resist to continue to struggle. it's an hour twenty three minutes past the hour here in moscow you've got to have time for some other international headlines for the grief of victims of the three coordinated bombings in mumbai being laid to rest at least seventeen were killed when a blast struck three locations downtown during the evening rush hour police say the attacks were well prepared and the explosive devices were quite sophisticated investigators admit they have no immediate suspects but all terror groups are being part of. the suicide bomber has attacked at the memorial service for the assassinated hawk rather of afghan president hamid karzai four people were killed

in the blast that rocked the mosque including a top cleric but they are two explosions shook the city of kandahar during the funeral ceremony for what he calls i believe his brother was shot twice by his family friend and longtime head of security on tuesday. egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak has reportedly told interrogators that they didn't order the crackdown on protesters during february's uprising that's after the country's ruling military council announced it will fire hundreds of police officers implicated in the killing of almost a thousand demonstrators meanwhile protests carry on for the seventh day running in tahrir square of course that was the epicenter of the original uprising that ousted the former president. but the pentagon is reportedly preparing to launch a new strategy to defend itself from cyber attacks and comes as a media campaign warns against the threat from al qaeda back its interest about time it is time we speak to security software mogul you have any customers keep he says it's the so-called amateur hacktivists who pose the real threat. claims of all

the books where the guys in the war for miami is less dangerous than others just for fun or like protest am it's even more dangerous because they are getting more experienced and more free to be called bureau elisa's or tourists employ these forces but i'm afraid that in the future of cyber terrorism. will. kidnap or force them. right now a time for business news with maria. hello and welcome to business here on artsy thank you for joining us now safe haven assets such as gold our senior new command over fears the u.s. could lose its top notch credit rating moody's investor service is threatening to

downgrade the country due to political deadlock over raising the state's that ceiling although still seen as unlikely by many analysts a downgrade could cause mayhem in the markets. money investment funds etc must only invest in aaa so therefore a lot of them will have to divest of their investments in u.s. treasuries and put. pressure to the downside on the treasury's yields would go up become more expensive for the united states to pull remotely from what is really a pretty pretty poor deficit situation at the moment so it would be quite grim and would harm the u.s. is the prospects for g.d.p. growth in the future but in the end the consequences of a default by the united states or thought you thought even for these people to contemplate and therefore i would probably suggest that they know it will come to an agreement both sides will have to give way a little bit but so they'll come to an agreement. and let's take

a look at the markets now and gold this trading at a record high as investors look for a place to park cash silver is there even better itself three percent but it's still some way short of the record that set a couple of months ago. now wall street opened on a positive note after reports of a three month low for jobless benefits applications comical friend ups is leading the gains among i know she starts after announcing plans to spend office refining units and on the losing side the shares of home sell train marriott international fell by about four point eight percent after its third quarter earnings would be below expectations let's take a look at what's happening in europe for the markets there are a lot see negative although lloyds banking group is putting on over three percent bucking the trend in london and frankfurt metro eiji and commerce bank are down about three percent while carmakers b.m.w. v.w.

and daimler are strong. and in russia markets have made a comeback in the arts yes and my sights are trading in the black this hour. let's take a look at some individual movers on. the my sax gas from is losing point three percent . positive the sour point seventy four percent and telecoms giant ross telecom has left the negative territory it's now just over one percent. russia's biggest company is plug in and see europe's power generating sector gas from entering these are w e r to create a joint venture with plants across the continents earlier there are spiegel magazine reports that the russian gas monopoly could become a key stakeholder in r w e investing as much as fourteen billion dollars are that he needs cash as it seeks to develop new sources of energy after the german government decided to abandon nuclear power well that's all the business news for

now join us for another update in about fifteen minutes in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines. to. me. with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people

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